With 100% English Ancestry, I thought it might be really difficult to trace my ancestors back in England from Canada. Only my mother, her father and his mother were born in Canada. This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days.

Charles
Cotterell is possibly one of my 4x great grandfathers (I decided to do this next set of seven "ancestors" just because it appears to fit into the father's line for my paternal grandmother (her mother is known but the father can only be guessed at). Kimpton is a very small village in Hampshire not far from Upper Clatford and Andover.

Charles married Mary Bartlett 31 Dec 1786 at Woodborough,
Wiltshire. Charles was baptized 19 Jul 1767 at Beechingstoke son of
William Cotterell and Elizabeth Kempton who were themselves married 3
May 1760 at Wilsford near Pewsey. Elizabeth was baptized 27 Jun 1731 at
Wilcot daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Kempton. William father of
Charles was buried 5 Jan 1770 at Beechingstoke.

William and Elizabeth baptized three children at Beechingstoke:

William was baptized 24 May 1761
Charles was baptized 19 Jul 1767
Elizabeth was baptized 13 May 1770 and buried 6 Sep 1770 at Beechingstoke

Elizabeth
Kempton married a second time to Robert Chandler 12 Jan 1773 at
Beechingstoke. Charles would have been just six years old when his
mother remarried and this family then appears at Woodborough where Elizabeth's second husband lives).

Charles Coterill married Mary
Bartlett 31 Dec 1786 at Woodborough (location for Robert Chandler on the
marriage registration). Charles their son was born 1786 at Woodborough
according to the 1851 census. Charles, the father, is likely the Charles
Cotterell buried at Fittleton 23 Sep 1810. The son Charles married
Hannah Alderman 23 Oct 1824 at Kimpton and they baptized two children at
Kimpton:

I
did try to find a baptism for William Cotterell married to Elizabeth
Kempton/Kimpton but will work on that again as well as the baptism for
their grandson Charles. Interestingly the Cotterel family appears earlier
in the Rawlings family as the eldest daughter of William Rawlins and
Mary Ford married Stephen Cotterel 28 Jan 1764 at Enford. Woodford is only ten
miles from Enford where the Rawlins family lived. Stephen was perhaps
the son of William Cotterel and baptized 8 Jan 1738 at Wilsford near
Pewsey (2.5 miles from Woodford and 8 miles from Enford).I did consider
that this could have been significant in the naming of my grandmother
but I think 100 years later that is unlikely especially given that the Lywood surname of her maternal grandmother would have likely been chosen. More on the Lywood family in a couple of months.